Some animals at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois got Halloween treats early this week. Gorillas and bears wasted no time chowing down on the pumpkins yesterday.
The tigers tossed them around like soccer balls and the polar bears just buried their noses in them.
Video provided by the Brookfield Zoo.
How cute is this face?? Songkhla Zoo in southern Thailand displayed a newborn male orangutan for the first time on Wednesday.
The baby orangutan was born to parents, Toto and Nancy, the zoo’s most favorite pair of orangutan. Since its birth about a month ago, zookeepers have nurtured the cub with special care.
After a seven-year absence, lions are back at Miami Metrozoo. Brothers Jabari and Kwame, each close to 200 pounds and just over a year old, come to South Florida from the Racine Zoo in Racine, Wisconsin.
Click here to visit the zoo’s website.
29-year-old zoology student Jo van Niekerk of Pretoria will serve a year behind bars.
The South African man is accused of attempting to smuggle hundreds of rare chameleons, snakes, lizards and frogs out of Madagascar inside his jacket and luggage.
He was arrested in November at Antananarivo airport. Around 100 lizards and frogs were pulled from inside the lining of his jacket, including a dead lizard — according to officials.
Police say the 388 animals in the case included several species only found on the Indian Ocean island off the southeastern coast of Africa, including a fanged snake and the nocturnal leaf-tailed gecko.
All the recovered animals are now at Antananarivo’s main zoo.
Britain’s Marwell Zoo is celebrating the birth of a rare pygmy hippopotamus by inviting visitors to vote on its name. The female was born on the 13th of November.
The zoo, in Hampshire, has selected four names to vote for: Loko, Kadina, Zimmi and Lola.
Voting closes on Friday, December 12.
Click here to submit your vote now!
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